Perhaps, there are countless trolls and trolls on social networks, and it seems that there are always people who can't stand the praise that Gao Wen has received, but the fact remains that it cannot be changed.
When people talk about the favorites to win the French Open, even though Gao Wen's performance in the clay court season has declined somewhat, he still appears at the top of the list:
Second only to the Big Four, he deserves to be the fifth favorite to win this year. After all, he is now ranked second in the world.
Not only experts, not only sports betting companies, but passers-by and people who eat melons, Gawain's name automatically comes to mind.
This is an expectation. Of course, it can also be regarded as a kind of recognition——
On the one hand, Nadal, who has always been the top favorite to win the French Open in the past ten years, is in poor form, and the competitive landscape of Roland Garros is open for the first time.
On the one hand, Gao Wen has remained undefeated in the Grand Slam tournaments, and best-of-five-set matches always seem to be able to bring out Gao Wen's potential.
The opportunity appeared just like this, not only for Djokovic, but also for Gawain; moreover, the two players currently competing for the world's No. 1 position have not met on clay this year, but
Gao Wen still maintains the lead in past results.
Therefore, in the French Open final, if the two players Djokovic and Gauvin meet up, and the dream scene of the No. 1 seed and the No. 2 seed competing for the championship occurs, the outcome may not be certain, and the situation of winning the championship will become more confusing than ever.
Just imagining it makes my skin crawl like crazy.
Of course, that's not all.
Players such as Berdych, Kei Nishikori, Ferrer, etc. also performed well in this year's clay court season and have appeared at the forefront of the odds list of favorites to win the championship.
Among them, Kei Nishikori was an unexpected surprise. Except for Monte Carlo, which did not participate, he performed very well in the subsequent three clay court events. He lost all of them to the final champion. He showed good competitiveness throughout the whole process and seemed to be
He has all the conditions to achieve a breakthrough in the French Open.
As both Asian men's singles players, Gawain's overall rise is an incentive and a pressure for Kei Nishikori. If it can be transformed into motivation and form a cycle of healthy competition, then the two players can join hands in the men's tennis world.
Set off an even crazier storm.
His eyes finally returned to Gawain again.
Such a situation, such a situation, is obviously brand new and different from the Australian Open at the beginning of the year.
When he arrived in Melbourne at the beginning of the year, Gowan was not the favorite to win the championship. Although expectations and pressure existed objectively, the focus was slightly different:
Every new Grand Slam champion must face the same issue, that is, he is burdened with expectations and is in an awkward buffer zone between the challenger and the challenged. Mental adjustment can often be very difficult, due to off-court interference and ego.
Stress will also affect the competitive state.
Once it cannot be overcome, the performance of a new Grand Slam champion in the next Grand Slam will often be a disaster.
Therefore, under the pressure at that time, expectations were mixed with curiosity, and concern was mixed with caution. People's attitudes were still relatively cautious:
It feels like a new parent watching their child learn to walk for the first time. They expect their child to walk steadily for a while, but they can't help but carefully guard and protect the child to prevent the child from getting hurt. They hope that the child will return, but still
Control your expectations.
Even though it was "Serjan's provocation", media reporters gathered around to watch, but they did not expect that Gao Wen could actually enter the final and win the championship.
At Melbourne Park, the real problem is the boos and attacks directed at the "home killer".
Arriving in Paris this time, the attention of the media and fans has been different from the first day. Subtle changes have created a completely different atmosphere.
You don’t even need to wait until the pre-match press conference. During daily practice, those eyes, those shouts, and those attentions are already different——
Fourteen consecutive Grand Slam wins, the aura of being undefeated in the Grand Slams, the potential to win three consecutive Grand Slams, everything is evolving into a shackles.
When people expect to get a hundred points in every exam, ninety-nine points means failure; at the same time, even if they get ninety-nine points, there are still a lot of gloating and adding insult to injury, over and over again.
Repeating ninety-nine points is a failure.
Even if ninety-nine points is not a failure at all, even if everyone knows that no one can remain perfect, the pressure is still enough to devour the soul.
Now, Gawain is facing such a contradictory dilemma, expectations and pressure, positive and negative, different voices collide and intertwine, and finally condense into a layer of dark clouds, shrouding Gawain's head tightly.
It condenses an invisible depression and dilemma.
In fact, it’s more than just Gawain?
From Gao Hongli and Jiang Yanyun to Sampras and Agassi, they all can feel this dilemma, which spreads from inside the court to off the court.
Everyone has their own worries, and everyone has their own way of dealing with it. The only thing that is certain is that they are all surrounding Gawain.
Today is the third day after arriving in Paris.
On the one hand, the draw ceremony is getting closer and closer, and the focus on Roland Garros is becoming more and more intense.
On the other hand, Gawain's training effect has declined slightly. With the adjustments brought about by the change in weather, Gawain is still struggling and unsatisfactory. Obviously, he still needs more time to polish it slowly.
Sampras stood on the sidelines, staying calm and rational, collecting as much information as possible in the hope of helping Gao Wen, but he could feel Gao Hongli's worries.
Although Gao Hongli tried his best to suppress it and tried to remain rational and objective, as a father, his position was different after all, and his worries still emerged.
Normally, Sampras seldom gets involved in Gao Wen's personal life. He hopes to maintain some distance, distinguish between public and private matters, and continue to treat coaching as a job. Only in this way can he continue to maintain professionalism.
But as Agassi said, when Sampras took the job, he just wanted to try it out. However, as time went by, he gradually changed his mentality and became more and more interested and devoted.
It seems that there is not much left of the original intention; similarly, as he has more and more interactions with Gawain's family, how much of the boundary between public and private is left?
Initially, Sampras, like Tobias, expected Gawain to fulfill his dreams and pursue goals that he had not been able to achieve.
Now, Sampras doesn't think so.
He doesn't care about his dreams, let alone whether Gawain can complete his unfinished business; what he cares about is Gawain, and he hopes to witness Gawain create a world of his own and get rid of "Sampras" and "Agassi"
"The shadow of these two names has led to great achievements.
He is very happy to be a part of this journey.
So, after hesitation and hesitation, Sampras finally spoke and took a step to break the boundary.